Danny Nelson

Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

Danny Nelson

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Marchés

US Officials Allege Student Defrauded Apple as Part of SIM Swap Attack

A UC-San Diego student is accused of participating in a SIM-swapping scam that defrauded Apple and stole one victim’s crypto.

Li and a conspirator tricked an Apple representative into sending them the iPhone 8 they used in their SIM swaps, prosecutors allege. (Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Forensics Firm Chainalysis Adds Tracing Support for Zcash, Dash

The blockchain intelligence firm says it has added zcash and dash to its transaction-tracing products.

Chainalysis said only 0.9% of zcash transactions are shielded, letting it track the other 99%. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Juridique

Saudi Monetary Authority Pumped Some of $13B Bank Infusion Using Blockchain

The central bank claims to have distributed 'part' of a recent $13 billion bank "liquidity enhancement" using blockchain tech.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Juridique

Lithuania Is Trialing a CBDC No One Can Use – And That’s by Design

The Bank of Lithuania's LBCoin digital collectible may be a gimmick, but its ambitions for blockchain tech are very, very real.

The Bank of Lithuania's LBCoin digital collectible may be a gimmick, but its ambitions for blockchain tech are very, very real. (Credit: Bank of Lithuania)

Marchés

Securitize Debuts On-Chain Royalty Payouts for Lottery.com Security Token

Securitize, a registered transfer agent, has facilitated the payout of royalties from blockchain-based securities for the first time.

"This is the first time that a blockchain-based transfer agent" has disbursed a security token payout, said CEO Carlos Domingo. Credit: CoinDesk archives

Marchés

Coinbase Offers US Feds New Crypto Surveillance Tools

Coinbase Analytics vaults the massive crypto exchange into a crowded field of blockchain tracing companies all vying for millions of federal dollars.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Marchés

SEC Moves to Freeze Assets of Alleged $12M Crypto Investment Scam

The SEC is trying to freeze the assets of a cryptocurrency mining and multilevel marketing scheme that it claimed bilked investors of $12 million.

SEC logo

Marchés

Lawsuit Accuses Xapo, Indodax of Negligently Holding Stolen Bitcoin

A crypto trader is trying to seize nearly 500 bitcoins from exchanges Xapo and Indodax through a new lawsuit that accuses the two crypto exchanges of harboring his stolen funds.

A lawsuit alleges Xapo is holding roughly 20 stolen BTC in a pair of hot wallets. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Marchés

Bittrex, Poloniex Added to Lawsuit Claiming Tether Manipulated Bitcoin Market

An amended lawsuit alleging Tether and Bitfinex manipulated the bitcoin market is now claiming Poloniex and Bittrex were also involved.

Credit: Shutterstock

Technologies

Matic Launches Mainnet Aiming to Bring More 'Firepower' to Ethereum

Matic, a sidechain scaling solution for Ethereum, has deployed the first 10 nodes of its mainnet after several years in development.

The Polygon team